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linux, or mac/win versions of office if he thinks they run
flawlessly. Mac office is far worse/incomplete than the win
version, and even using office2013 under windoze I find it crashes
constantly, and loses data when even though it's supposed to
backup every 10 minutes, will find it really hasn't for sometimes
hours. This is flipping unacceptable, and has been making my life
hell working with a client windoze7 image to interface with them.
I have my grievances with libre office, but I've never lost data,
even on a brand new, unsaved file, and it'll always just restore
all the old working copies perfectly. Win Office I need to at
times go hunt down what I was just working on, and pray it backed
up before it crashed. It ends up usually showing me the wrong
version of the file, and again I'll lose work just for choosing
the wrong time of backup. Latest always, please! Whatever I had
open, all of it! NOT hard.
Mac ports are terribly inferior, especially lync components for
chat, and we were flat out told as even a m$ partner they will
*never* be made as good as windoze counterparts for obvious
reasons.
I really can't believe people still pay for office, or windoze,
but sadly all the format templates this company uses for documents
is word-based that libre looks at and distorts to hell. So much
for "open xml",.. Thanks microsoft, the lock-in continues.
-mb
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I live in Latin America, where
the cost of Windows is
prohibitively hi...
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systems of
many varieties
free of cost,
why do people
still buy Mac
OS and Windows
OS?
votes
prohibitively
high for most
families
compared to
their income.
I have helped
several
families
prepare a
budget for
their desktop
computers.
When they do
this I always
give them the
choice
Windows.
Linux Mint or
Ubuntu for
free.
Confronted
with the
choice they
ask what the
implications
are. I always
tell them it
is really hard
to g... Read More »
votes
has mentioned
etiquette
- something
tourists and
new comers
often get
wrong, pissing
off both deli
employees and
fellow
customers.
First of all,
when ordering
something from
the case or
the grill - a
sandwich, for
example - it's
customary to
place your
order with the
person who is
actually
working that
station. Do
NOT try to
place you... Read More »
space? Why do
you have to go
so fast?
Johnson Space
Center,
Houston
votes
that Gravity
doesn't
magically turn
off when you
get into
orbit. You are
still falling
back towards
the earth. But
once you reach
a horizontal
speed of about
17,000 miles
an hour as you
fall towards
the Earth you
keep missing
it. The only
known way to
stay in space
is to be going
really fast
and maintain
an orbit. So
unless and
until we... Read More »
most exclusive
credit card?
trademark
litigator.
Always
thinking,
always
writing.
votes
Well it is not
the most
exclusive
credit card.
It's very
exclusive in
that only
those who are
invited can
hold the card,
there are
strict
qualification
requirements
(that are not
officially
disclosed, but
rumours all
say that one
must spend
about $250,000
per year on
their existing
American
Express
charge, not
credit, card),
and to get the
card after
being invited
will cost you
a $7,500
initiat... Read More »
votes
performance.
So the answer
is yes. OS X
can sometimes
become slow
over time.
But in my
experience
it's less
commonplace
than in
Windows
installations.
There are a
few of reasons
for this.
1) I think the
UNIX
underpinnings
of OS X can be
a bit more
robust. Some
of the Windows
engineering,
(like the
registry) seem
to encourage
this slow
dow... Read More »
without
breaking the
propeller, on
a single prop
airplane?
Startup
votes
fighter pilots
often had to
be careful
about how much
they fired
their forward
machine gun
because firing
it would
slowly eat
away at their
own propeller.
Fortunately
for fighter
pilots, by
WWII a
"synchronization
gear" or
"interrupter"
had been
developed and
was standard
equipment on
fighters flown
by both the
allied and
axis powers.
In it... Read More »
votes
top 500
supercomputers
top 10 million
webservers
top 1 million
webservers
100% of all
Android
devices[1] (as
Tim points
out, Android
is a layer
atop an OS,
nearly always
Linux)
desktops/laptops
desktops/laptops
that aren't
running a
Microsoft OS
Data Source
[1] "Android"
not on top of
Linux: Myriad
Alien Dalvik
(mainly used
in
cable/sat... Read More »
vehicles that
can carry
humans gone?
Have we gone
around 60% the
speed of
light?
votes
anywhere close
to that fast.
That record
for the
fastest speed
any human has
ever traveled
relative to
the Earth was
set by Apollo
10, which
reached 39,897
kph. That's
approximately
0.0037% the
speed of
light.
For
comparison,
the fastest
unmanned craft
ever launched
to date is the
Helios 2 solar
probe,
launched in
1976, which
reached
approxim... Read More »
and ships it
with Windows?
votes
become open
source code.
Linux is
licensed under
GPL, and that
license has a
"share, and
share alike"
principle. In
essence, the
license says
that if you
distribute a
derivative
work that
includes GPL
code, the
entire work
must be
licensed under
the GPL. Linux
shares its
source code
with you, and
you must share
alike. Of
course, all of
this is ... Read More »
depending on
my bonus.
Would it be
inappropriate
for me to
drive a $50k
Mercedes-Benz?
votes
$50k
Mercedes-Benz
SLK at age 26,
and I earn in
the same
range. Let me
first give you
some caveats:
stable office
as a civil
servant. Are
you sure that
you won't be
fired in the
near future?
excellent
retirement
plan. Are your
savings sound?
heavily
discounted.
Diplomats
serving abroad
can buy cars
tax-free,
an...
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